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Joseph Bates is the author of Tomorrowland (Curbside Splendor, 2013) and The Nighttime Novelist (Writers Digest, 2013).His short fiction has appeared in such journals as The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, South Carolina Review, Fresh Boiled Peanuts, and InDigest Magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Visit him online at www.josephbates.net. ...more

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Keep Your Shorts On reads "Mirrorverse" & reading TODAY at the University of Cincinnati

My great thanks to the fine folks at Keep Your Shorts On--a site devoted to story recommendations--for this lovely piece on "Mirrorverse," the lead-off story in TOMORROWLAND (which originally appeared in The Rumpus). Head on over and check it out!

Also, if you're in the Cincinnati area, come out this afternoon at 4pm to hear me read alongside the great Jamie Poissant, author of THE HEAVEN OF AN Read more of this blog post »

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	Tomorrowland 3.99 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey 4.21 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nighttime Novelist: Finish Your Novel in Your Spare Time 3.90 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 by Jason Pettus (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Duffer, Dan Treadway 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology about Setting by Traci Kim (Editor), Dan Treadway, Robert Duffer 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Late Night Writer Bundle by Joseph Bates (Goodreads Author), Brian Kiteley (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates: Embracing a Long Life on Shipboard, With Sketches of Voyages on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas; Also Impressment and 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man Woman is having an affair is embarrassed”
― Joseph Bates, The Nighttime Novelist: Finish Your Novel in Your Spare Time

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“BRAINSTORMING THE NOVEL”
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Joseph’s Quotes

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: happy-endings, literature, perception

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“How can you be alienated without first having been connected?”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: life, planets, space-travel

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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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